DETAILS OF THE DISASTER

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10691, 12 August 1912, Page 5

DETAILS OF THE DISASTER

ENORMOUS DAMAGE TO BUILD- ( • INGS. '• ■ COUNTRY DISAPPEARS INSURES. " .. THOUSANDS HOMELESS ANJ) HELPLESS. -(Received This Morning, 12.15 o'c]o:.i:. OONSTANTNOPLE, Last Night. The earthquake .lasted for thirty seconds. ' | The chief centre of the movement waß" the Dardanelles. There is hardly an.undamaged buiH- ' insrat Gallipoli atyd Charak. Tho shock was felt over the whoio region, extending between Co.iJ fit'ntinoplo and Adrianople. , Many thousands on both sides at fT the Sea of Marmora are homeless, j 'focdless, and waterleai. ( It is impossible yet to estimate the death-roll. j The ivires are down, and commun:- ' ration between Constantinople and . Europe is interrupted, except via Odessa. I 'Some were killed and many injured at Chanak where the hot springs overflowed. • . A hrge area of country then v;i>iinelied through the fissures. I Many stone buildings at IChan«;«. including the Greek Church nrd Mosque 'collapsed, white others are in., ruins. An extraordinary feature of the disaster is that the frontages of, houses on the seashore were ied. while'the backs were untouched. Wooden buildings -withstood * the : shock better. The captain of the steamer yir- ; ginia reports that the lighthouses at -Ganos and Hora have 1 disappeared. ~ Many of the villages in the vicinity •' are in flames. The Virginia was nnable to anchor, owing to the ebullitions of the sea. ; Tlie.Captain cf tlie steamer Kyvt'i -confirms this, statement. While doubling round Capes Hora ,*»nd Ganos, a heavy sea compelled him | to &top his vessel, He was, however, enable to render assistance.